Mark Lamster

This year I celebrated my ten year anniversary as the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, and in April I looked back at that time and the phenomenon I call Dallas Logic. As for 2023, ...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2023/12/27/a-decade-in-dallas/

Dealey Plaza doesn’t work. The gateway to downtown Dallas where John F. Kennedy was assassinated is a dangerous mess that fails its critical functions as a site for civic memory and essential t...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2022/11/27/a-plan-to-reinvent-dealey-plaza/

Some happy news: I’m working on a new book, a cultural history of Dallas as told through its architecture. It will be published by the wonderful Dallas-based non-profit Deep Vellum, and is bein...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2022/05/11/the-buildings-that-made-dallas/

In this new era for architecture, with its emphasis on equity, sustainability, context, mobility, and resilience, among other social factors, aesthetics can seem like an afterthought, and underst...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2021/06/27/a-big-glowing-museum-and-other-stories/

In 1872, an emancipated slave named Henry Critz Hines founded the Fredman’s town of Joppa (pronounced Jop-ee) between the tracks of what is no the Union Pacific Railroad and the flood-prone wet...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2020/10/03/the-story-of-joppa/

And now for something completely different. In the early 1970s, the avant-garde collective Ant Farm, best known for the Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo, build a lake house shaped like a giant ...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2019/07/13/the-house-of-the-century/

If reading all 528 pages of The Man in the Glass House seemed a bit too daunting, or if you just prefer listening to the spoken word, I am please to announce that the book is now available in aud...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2019/06/17/architecture-parlante/

Morning national television is not my native habitat, but I made my debut this past weekend on CBS Saturday Morning, in a terrific feature on Johnson and The Man in the Glass House by host and co...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2019/04/22/pj-on-cbs-saturday-morning/

Nothing beats a positive review by a writer you admire in a publication you respect. I think the big fear when you write a book is that nobody will take it seriously, so when it is, it’s really...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2019/04/07/the-godfather/

Woo-hoo! The Man in the Glass House has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. This is one of the largest prizes in publishing, so a tremendous hono...

https://www.marklamster.com/index.php/2019/01/27/tmitgh-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalist/